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Short films will be the flavour at the International Film Festival of IndiaGoa India in November, officials said Saturday. The Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), which is the nodal agency for organising this annual film festival, claims this is the first time in the history of Indian film festivals, that short films have been given a holistic thrust, backed by a professional business model.  read more »

Goa India: The sun was out after a brief stint of rain. The air was salty and beads of perspiration clung on to anxious faces like transparent mosquitoes. We were all a bit sore after the wild party the previous night. I even had a throbbing head, but once I saw them, I couldn’t help but grin.  read more »

The Tourism department on Sunday allotted 305 beach shack licences for the coming tourist season. In north Goa India199 licences and in south Goa 106 licences were issued.

However, the tourism department deferred a decision on granting licences for setting up shacks in Cavelossim in view of the Bombay High Court order to keep the matter in abeyance. Similarly the department withheld a decision on issuing permits to set up these temporary structures in Nerul and Dando, Candolim.  read more »

For the first time, the environmentalists have documented the stripe necked mongooses in the forest region of Goa India-Maharashtra border in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary.

Incidently, the citings have come on the backdrop of wildlife conservation week, which culminated on October 8.

The environmentalists during their track to this belt found two individuals of stripe necked mongoose (Herpestes vittcollis) in the forests of Virdi village of Dodamarg taluka in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district.  read more »

Trust a true blue Goan to have fun in his or her own intricate Goan style in any setting… just throw in some good music, good Goan grub and you’re set! This was exactly the scene at the Goan food festival organised in the city over the weekend as part of the Goa India
government’s initiative to attract more tourists to the state.  read more »